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RE: Asteroid 2009 XO2

Blobrana · L

The 57 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2009 XO2 will make a close pass (8.5 lunar distances, 0.0220 AU), travelling at 9.83 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd December, 2009.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

-- Edited by Blobrana on Sunday 13th of December 2009 07:39:42 PM

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Orbital elements:
2009 XO2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0194 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 359.83392              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.36628547     Peri.   15.59146     -0.28147249     -0.93435105
a   1.9345929      Node    91.14505     +0.85536608     -0.34753064
e   0.4871600      Incl.   12.62608     +0.43488173     +0.07880718
P   2.69           H   23.4           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2009 - X49